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OMG so lovely. The beautiful, crisp decadence of a ridiculously structured white Rhone. From Alder Springs, of course. Just stunningly bitter and butter and beset with all the things you look for in a wine that isn’t Chardonnay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. A blend of gold only 12% Viognier for that pure Marsanne and Roussanne expression. A more perfect wine could not be imagined…

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Goldilocks

Been a while since I had a bangin’ white Rhone, and I really need to drink more of these. I drink too much Chardonnay! And Riesling… and Chenin… But where are my Rhone-clones??? Mendocino might be a bit of an asterisk to some–but it whouldn’t–and Alder Springs certainly needs no introduction. Have you ever had a bad wine from Alder Springs? I can only think a a couple Hardy Wallace bottles which…

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Pure Gold

An other-worldly green-yellow glow in the glass. A nose so clean, so ridiculously bright, taut with controlled floral and tight tropical richness. Melon and banana and apricot, Thompson Seedless and creamy dust. Absolute perfection in the nose–wishing for anything more a melancholy chore Something so young, so balanced and refined, so shy in its graciousness: surely a Rhone white capable of…

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"I'll be back."

“I’ll be back.”

Holy wow. Reviewing a wine like this is tedious at best, but someone’s gotta do it. Just absolute impenetrable liquid–visually and palate-ly–the merits of which are outstandingly obvious, but cloaked so ridiculously inside a shell of pine-nut proportions. Practically battery-acid to the casual taster–needing a decade to even BEGIN to approach–but let’s break through that and get it in your…

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Viognier Dreams

LOVE dipping into the Alder Springs stuff, and Donald Patz & Francois Villard are doing God’s work here with their two Rhone offerings. Pale legal-pad in the glass, it offers up a crisp nose still crammed with ripe citrus and rich floral. There’s a nutty, figgy over-lay to the golden-delicious and prickly-pear fruit, laying down herbaceous notes stopping just short of “grassy”. It’s a full, rich,…

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Term Limits

Pale shimmering gold. Dank dusty cellar rolls out, warm leather seats and soaked soybeans, oak with a hint of chocolate. Honeydew and kiwi give a yin-yang to the nose, light and sweetly fruited on one hand, sharp and tropically green on the other, with a grassy edge of minerality.

A bit of alcohol invades on entry, but oh so rich and decadently stuffed. Greasy, dirty shop-floor bins, spare…

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Code 38

Thick, staining and purple-rimmed, a nose churning out polished dusty floral and rich berry blackened with loam and cover-crop. Creamy blackberry–sauteed in butter and herb–brings heady savory umami to a bouquet dense with complex fruit and oak. A bottle like this deserves a good decant, not to soften edges or facilitate balance, but to enliven existing layers into manageable context. In the…

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Syrah Nation

It is interesting to contemplate the different styles various varieties can be made in. Petite Sirah and Carignane are made in two quite distinct styles. Cabernet can be made in a couple of styles–and we’re not just talking about *lots of oak* or *no oak*. Pinot has probably 3–maybe 4–styles. Riesling can be made in a myriad of styles. Chardonnay has 2 styles–but we weren’t going to talk about…

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The Gold Standard

A toasty, almost buttered-popcorn nose greets. Down inside, creamy fruit lurks, asparagus and sultry melon, grassy loam and the spectre of nectarine. Oblique wet stone coats all in subdues tones, never rising to quite a *petrichor* level–the pure plushness always stands in the way.

Subtlety rich on the palate, an extravagant white never whoring itself out to pure in-your-face power, instead…

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Fields of Gold

Just stupidly aromatic. Apricot and pear-sauce and gooseberry and the kind of grassy piquantness that shocks the system and the kind of smoky verve that waters the eyes. Radically saline, sweat and sharp fat, monumentally mineralific, the kind of sizzling texture flowing off this thing at cellar-temperature makes your white-wine fantasies absolute REALITY.

As I am sure most of you are…

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Mendo St. Joe Impenetrable ruby, a rim of clear lined with blue for the rosy purple glow. Dense vegetation on the nose, lush green forest growth and fat grass-stains on wet denim.

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Impenetrable ruby, a rim of clear lined with blue for the rosy purple glow.  Dense vegetation on the nose, lush green forest growth and fat grass-stains on wet denim. Nasal-clearing sharpness--not alcohol but mineral--hang mint and smoke heavily over sagging close-lines draped in fog. Meaty-sweet late-breathe, a concentration of cola and anise attempt to pry the peppermint from the cherry's grasp. Every fresh swirl rejuvenates the funk and briar, but thankfully also that sharp green. In the mouth, meatiness again weighs into the entry, forming the concentrated fruit into prickly compactness but objectifying every curve. Almost syrupy sensationally in its density, it remains clear and calm, bright and uplifting, fruit ridiculously light on its feet despite the tomes of pressure this thing lays down. Tannin graciously gives you until shortly after center to contemplate lush-life, before not-so-gently directing everyone for the exits. But wait. That's where the fruit really shines, and I've often said the true test of a stupidly young wine--and this might as well be a barrel sample--is the fruit in the FINISH.  In this case, it doesn't back down at bit to all the snarls and menace of the structure, half of your mouth ferociously sandpapering out and the other half bathed in luscious broth. Then they trade sides. Hot on the heels of Donalt Patz's and Francois Villard's beautiful white Rhone collab comes 5 barrels of this much-anticipated Alder Springs Syrah. I'm not sure this is released yet, hit the link below to find out and be sure and follow all THREE of Dr. Pinot's retirement projects: Secret Door BDX's, Maritana Burgs, and Terminim Rhones. 2017 @TERMINIM_WINES #Syrah #AlderSprings #mendocinowine #California 14.0 (at Alder Springs Vineyard) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxdzKmRHC_Q/?igshid=9pwn12ksvtd5

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